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Maryland Printmakers
(Archived version from June,
1998 - click here
for current) Continuing Education: People Making Prints Together By Linda Harrison-Parsons |
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| Maryland Printmakers educates the public each time we answer the question:
What do you do for a living? I'm an artist. Oh! What do you paint? I'm a
printmaker. I also do special project like going into public schools and
teaching students the Fine Art of Printmaking.
Pam Lawton, a member of Maryland Printmakers and one of the art teachers at Northwestern High School wrote a grant for an Artist-in-Residence from the Maryland Printmakers, donated materials and the use of the small Conrad printing press to Northwestern High School. Pam and I worked together to create a project for two of her classes, which lasted one month, using Maryland Printmakers equipment and funded by the Maryland State Arts Council and Northwestern High School. Pam Lawton has taken on the job of coordinating the educational project of Maryland Printmakers. We are always looking for new ideas to educate the public. Pam will focus on organizing projects that will utilize the talent of our members and allow them the use of our etching press for educational school programs, demonstrations during receptions and workshops for beginning and advanced printmakers. We have been in contact with Rockville Arts Place and Howard County Arts Center; both are interested in having members of Maryland Printmakers offer print classes. The press can be made available for short-term projects at these or other locations. If you would like to teach a workshop, use the press at your school for a special project or coordinate an artist-in-residence program contact Pam Lawton, she will put you on the request list. A Maryland Printmaker must supervise the use of the press at all times for educational workshops. The press can not be used for personal use. These requests will be reviewed and approved by the board. In June the press will be used in two different locations for workshops. The last two weekends in June the press will be at the Columbia Center for the Arts where workshops in stenocut and relief with monotypes/prints will be given by Sue Anne Bottomley and Linda Harrison-Parsons. If you have an idea for a children's summer camp, workshop, a demonstration of an innovative print techniques or an artist-in-residence project contact Pam Lawton with the proposal.
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